This paper summarizes the rationale for specialized tutoring and mentoring for pre-service language teacher education at the University of Las Tunas, Cuba. It is assumed that either academic tutoring and mentoring are forms of human activity that are designed according to the socio-historical characteristics of the context where they are implemented and that tutors and mentors become mediators between the content and students’ learning processes (Palacios 2006). It is acknowledged that there is a close connection among the contexts for tutoring and mentoring, the goals of pre-service teacher education, the integrating discipline, the stages of the tutoring and mentoring model throughout the pre-service program, and the students and tutors-mentors’ characteristics. So, this connection serves as the basis for the determination of specialized tutoring and mentoring model for pre-service foreign language teacher education that includes a content component, a process one and a personal component to generate an integrated and contextualized activity to favor students’ integral education as language teachers.